Allophonic rule — An allophonic rule is a phonological rule that says which allophone realizes a phoneme in a given phonemic environment. In other words, an allophonic rule is a rule that converts the phonemes in a phonemic transcription into the allophones of the … Wikipedia

allophone — allophonic /al euh fon ik/, adj. allophonically, adv. /al euh fohn /, n. Phonet. any of the members of a class of speech sounds that, taken together, are commonly felt to be a phoneme, as the t sounds of toe, stow, tree, hatpin, catcall, cats … Universalium

Esperanto phonology — The creator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, did not specify phonemic phonetic correspondences for his language. Instead, he simply described the orthography as one letter, one sound . Literally interpreted, this is impossible: Every language has… … Wikipedia